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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: frl9lk on March 01, 2007, 10:31:46 PM

Title: New HD in A4000
Post by: frl9lk on March 01, 2007, 10:31:46 PM

I put in an 8G HD (old Seagate Fireball - IDE) into a working A4000 (replacing a 1.6G Seagate). Originally booting from 3.1 disks I've been trying to get it to hold a format. Things seem fine until a reboot, where it seems that everything has to be reformatted yet again.

I had a similar problem with my 2000 which was solved by reducing the partions to 1G each. Do I have to do the same here?

The jumpers are set to Master.

Title: Re: New HD in A4000
Post by: Ross1 on March 01, 2007, 11:07:06 PM

You cant use more then 4 gig of the drive with OS 3.1 the first partition should be smaller then on gig if I remember right.

Title: Re: New HD in A4000
Post by: alexh on March 02, 2007, 12:06:38 AM

The scsi.device of your (original) Kickstart ROM will never support partitions with more than 4GB so you must keep your boot partition below this barrier.

You can replace the scsi.device later in your RAM, but at boot time you must live with the scsi.device from your Kickstart ROM.

There are of course ways to burn your own Kickstart EPROM with more recent device drivers, but that's maybe too complicated for you.

Keep your boot partition below 4Gig and install some extra software (scsi.device, FFS, NSD etc.) and you will be fine for any size hard drive.

http://os.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=de&page=37

Title: Re: New HD in A4000
Post by: alexh on March 02, 2007, 12:07:24 AM

Using SFS filesystem rather than FFS filesystem will drastically improve your hard drive performance.

Title: Re: New HD in A4000
Post by: frl9lk on March 05, 2007, 02:13:16 PM

Thanks for all the help. I've kept the boot partition and a work partition under 4G (combined total)... that works fine. I just want to make _sure_ that I can add additional partitions as long as they're under 4G.

Thanks again.